QUIET ON TOP.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17570, 22 June 1925, Page 14

QUIET ON TOP.

CHINESE AFFAIRS.

HOSTILE FEELING STRONG.

By IVlcsrapb I’iws A>so-i*lloo-Copjnso» .Reuter's Telegrams. PEKIN. June 20. Delegates representing forty-eight colleges sent a deputation to interview j the Foreign and War .Ministers;, ami demand the severance of diplomats relations with Britain, and the impeachment of the Tucban at Hankow. The situation, however, of, least outwardly. is quietening. Hi ere are no signs of a boycott or strike, and numbers of students have returned home during the past week. Shanghai i>. quiet, hut there has been no cessation of anti-foreign propa ga nda. The decision io re-open the banks and shops is favourably affecting the general situation, but it merely reflects the necessity for ilio Chinese io end a. phase of the. situation which is causing them much heavier losses and more inconvenience than it is the foreigners. The shipping strike, which is n j strong anti-foreign weapon, is not weakening, and the strikers are beginning to kidnap Japanese employees, who are taken to CJiapei, robbed and beaten, and only released on payment of money and promises to quit foreign employment. A wireless message, from Chin-Liang states that the strikers resolved that coal should nor be sold to British or Japanese. At Swatow the anti-foreign demon- J strations continue, while at Koo-ehow an anti-Japanese boycott has boon decided on, but the date has not been fixed. * JAPANESE MURDERED IN CANTON. PEKIN, June 20. A telegram from Canton states that Mr Nakadai. the Japanese treasurer of the Ilukuai Hospital, was shot dead by an unknown Chinese outside the French gate of the Shamien. The Japanese Consul notified the Public Safety Bureau and requested that police should be posted outside the Shamien. lie also made a formal protest and reserved the right to claim an indemnity. The Ilukuai Hospital is a semi-offi-cial institution connected with the Formosa Government. Local authorities claim that the case ? is not connected with the present 1 threatened strike against foreigners. ' The Japanese Consul advised Japanese nationals living in Canton to come to the Shamien.